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Conditions for successful public-private collaboration for public service innovation University of Antwerp
Digital transformation and public service innovation are vital ingredients in our dynamic and complex societies. However, due to the complexity of the environments in which we innovate, collaborations between multiple actors are often needed to advance the quest for digital transformation. This chapter explores how partnerships between public and private sector actors pursue public service innovation in the context of digital transformation. We ...
The design and management of public-private eHealth partnerships University of Antwerp
In the upcoming years, European countries will devote substantial public resources to the digital transformation of governments. To increase the probability of successful digitalization, it is important to learn from early experiences and to develop knowledge about why some projects succeed, while others fail to achieve digital transformation. This chapter takes on a practice-based view and analyzes key success factors across 19 public-private ...
Collaboration for digital transformation University of Antwerp
This concluding chapter summarizes and reflects the key arguments and research findings presented in the previous chapters on the crucial role of collaboration in creating digital transformation and innovative public services. The chapter starts with a reflection on complexity, risk, and power inequalities as challenges of collaborating for digital transformation and the relevance of the national context in shaping collaboration dynamics. It ...
Introduction University of Antwerp
This chapter introduces the book and gives an overview of its contents. The book aims to contribute to understanding how governments move towards digital transformation and interact with others in this collaborative endeavour. It theoretically develops and empirically explores the interlinked aspects of digital transformation, intergovernmental collaboration, collaborative governance, and public sector innovation and connects literature on ...
It is all about interaction University of Antwerp
When collaborating for public sector innovation, some actors are found to be more important than others to be included in the collaborative process. This chapter examines how innovative outcomes of collaborative public sector innovation projects can be explained by the network integration of its most important actors. Using social network data of three cases that aimed to develop and implement a public sector innovation it was found that actors ...
Subsidised transport services in a fiscal federation University of Antwerp
In this paper we consider a fiscal federation and study the effects of decentralised provision of loss-generating public services with benefit spillovers to other regions. We use public transport provision across administrative borders as a prototype example. We show in a formal model that local governments might be better off when a higher-level government or a neighbouring region provides these services, and even privatisation to a monopolist ...
A stakeholder perspective on public sector innovation University of Antwerp
Public sector innovation scholarship has not yet systematically explored how the target context (or output phase) of innovations impacts the early phases of innovation processes. This study theorizes and tests whether innovating organizations are more sensitive to ideas from particular stakeholder groups depending on the target group of said innovation. Using a large-scale dataset from the Australian Public Service, the results show that ...
Can we mitigate Covid-19 related work strain among civil servants? Examining the role of organizational commitment, job autonomy and workplace social support University of Antwerp
The extraordinary measures taken to constrain infections with the coronavirus may have altered the known psychological processes preventing stress and strain in the public workplace. We use survey data of a large public organization in Belgium to look at the capacity of affective organizational commitment, perceived job autonomy, and workplace social support to buffer the impact of Covid-19 measures on work strain. We find a negative effect of ...
How does organizational task matter for the reputation of public agencies? University of Antwerp
The study of organizational task for understanding how organizations behave and evolve has been one of the classic topics in organization theory and public administration. Reputation scholarship has appeared as a promising perspective to understand internal and external organizational dynamics. Reputation scholars, too, emphasize the critical importance of task. Despite this recognition, the literature is characterized by a lack of theorization, ...